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Deadly
by
Julie Chibbaro (Goodreads Author),
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing a job appropriate for a young lady. But Prudence isn’t like the other girls. She is fascinated by how
...moreHardcover, 304 pages
Published
February 22nd 2011
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
(first published 2011)
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Deadly-Julie Chibbaro
Everyday people die from diseases and spread more each day. Many times it’s people who are innocent who just had bad luck from some person who spreads diseases. Deadly, by Julie Chibbaro tells the story of thousands of people, who get killed by an invisible killer called diseases, which kills innocent people.
This story takes place in New York and is about how Prudence, a 16-yearold scientist takes a job as an assistant in a laboratory in 1906 and the evidence in which a ha...more
Everyday people die from diseases and spread more each day. Many times it’s people who are innocent who just had bad luck from some person who spreads diseases. Deadly, by Julie Chibbaro tells the story of thousands of people, who get killed by an invisible killer called diseases, which kills innocent people.
This story takes place in New York and is about how Prudence, a 16-yearold scientist takes a job as an assistant in a laboratory in 1906 and the evidence in which a ha...more
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A behind-the-scenes look at Typhoid Mary told in epistolary form from the point of view of a teenage girl with a curious mind, Deadly was a swift, fascinating read that had me running from one cover to another. Despite the fact that the letters were mere snippets in Prudence's life, despite the fact that the world is viewed very narrowly through her eyes, I felt everything she felt. I could see her mother, her boss and the female doctor she idolized as clearly as Prudence did.
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This was a great historical novel about a disease and a person that I only thought I knew about. If I had to describe this novel with one word it would be interesting. And I don't mean that in a bad way.... I was fascinated by the way Prudence mind worked. I think to constantly question everything as she does would be absolutely exhausting... but at the same time I remember that curiosity that I once had myself. I remember my mom bought me a microscope and I spent hours looking at slides on that...more
Ever since her brother died of an infected wound, Prudence has been determined to further the medical sciences and save lives, but that's not easy when you're a 16-year-old girl in 1906 New York City. When she takes a secretarial job at the Department of Health and Sanitation, Prudence begins working with Mr. Soper, trying to track cases of typhoid and figure out how to stop the epidemic. All tracks seem to lead to one woman - Mary Mallon - but "Typhoid Mary" refuses to believe that she carries...more
Deadly is the story of a girl living with her mother during a time where girls were expected to go into careers like shopkeepers or secretaries. But Prudence is more interested in science than fashion, and when she takes a job as the assistant to the head of a laboratory that works to find the source of infectious diseases. After an outbreak of typhoid emerges, that nobody is able to figure out the source of for a while, they begin to narrow down the possibilities to one woman: a cook named Mary...more
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro is a book that will take you the adventure of 17 year old Prudence Galewalski. In this intriguing and interesting story Prudence becomes an assistant to the health and sanitation department. However, she realizes that science isn’t everything she expected it to be. When Prudence takes on a case about the typhoid disease she struggles to understand why it’s killing people. As she searches for an answer to this unsolvable mystery realizes that it’s going to be hard to hol...more
Prudence Galewski has long been interested in how death and disease happen--what make the human body fail. Although most girls are interested in marriage and family, Prudence doesn't want to settle down; she wants to use her brain to delve into the world of science. When she's offered a job taking notes for Mr. Soper, who works for the Department of Health and Sanitation, she's excited to have found an opportunity that lets her do just that. An outbreak of typhoid fever leads Mr. Soper and Prude...more
Prudence Galewski is a curious “science-minded” girl living in a time when girls became secretaries, book keepers, nannies, or wives. Prudence knows that, as she looks for her first job, she must find something that is going to stretch her mind and challenge her abilities. She is overjoyed when her first (and only) job offer comes from the New York Department of Health and Sanitation. She is offered the position of an assistant who will take field notes and assist on investigations into the caus...more
A fascinating read, despite this not (and this probably won't be the last time I'll say this) being my genre.
I liked the female-in-a-male-society aspect (if I didn't wholly like the way that Prudence was treated by Jonathan) and her going into science. Yay! Rebellion!
Mary Mallon was a really sad case. If people came to lock me up for life because they thought I was dirty (especially if I took that as "dirty Irish," though I'm not Irish . . . I don't think), I would get scared and run away too....more
I liked the female-in-a-male-society aspect (if I didn't wholly like the way that Prudence was treated by Jonathan) and her going into science. Yay! Rebellion!
Mary Mallon was a really sad case. If people came to lock me up for life because they thought I was dirty (especially if I took that as "dirty Irish," though I'm not Irish . . . I don't think), I would get scared and run away too....more
I absolutely loved this book. The story, about a young woman in 1906 who leaves finishing school to become an assistant in the very young Department of Health of New York, was very compelling. Prudence finds herself yearning to know how bacteria and illness works, partly for personal reasons, and partly as a calling to become a scientist or doctor herself-- if that's even possible for a woman in 1906. She and her chief find themselves investigating a case of typhoid that is spreading, and they m...more
Actual Rating: 3.5/5
Written in journal entry format, Deadly details the profound discovery that a healthy individual can be a carrier of contagious disease, combining the art of storytelling with factual evidence and scientific process to give us an intriguing, albeit brief, look into medical understanding in the early nineteen hundreds. The beginning chapters are a bit tedious as we follow Prudence in her attempt to find a job that will challenge her mind beyond gender-standard secretarial work...more
Written in journal entry format, Deadly details the profound discovery that a healthy individual can be a carrier of contagious disease, combining the art of storytelling with factual evidence and scientific process to give us an intriguing, albeit brief, look into medical understanding in the early nineteen hundreds. The beginning chapters are a bit tedious as we follow Prudence in her attempt to find a job that will challenge her mind beyond gender-standard secretarial work...more
Reading Level: Grades 7-9
16-year-old Prudence Galewski knows she should be grateful to be a scholarship student at Mrs. Browning's School for Girls but she finds her lessons in typing, literature and deportment oppressive. Prudence doesn't want to be a wife and mother or a secretary at a bank. She wants to know what causes diseases and how to prevent them even though girls in the early 19th century were not supposed to be interested in such unladylike things.
Prudence gets her chance when she is...more
16-year-old Prudence Galewski knows she should be grateful to be a scholarship student at Mrs. Browning's School for Girls but she finds her lessons in typing, literature and deportment oppressive. Prudence doesn't want to be a wife and mother or a secretary at a bank. She wants to know what causes diseases and how to prevent them even though girls in the early 19th century were not supposed to be interested in such unladylike things.
Prudence gets her chance when she is...more
Remember when you were a little kid and one of the "mean" things the kids would call each other was Typhoid (enter name here)? Like Typhoid Mary? Ever wonder what her real story was?
Deadly follows the fictional story of a young girl, Prudence Galewski, in the early 1900's who feels that there is more to life than learning how to keep a house and husband. When she comes across a chance at a job with the Department of Sanitation to assist a Sanitation Inspector she decides that she has found her...more
Deadly follows the fictional story of a young girl, Prudence Galewski, in the early 1900's who feels that there is more to life than learning how to keep a house and husband. When she comes across a chance at a job with the Department of Sanitation to assist a Sanitation Inspector she decides that she has found her...more
3 November 2010 DEADLY by Julie Chibbaro, Atheneum, February 2011, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-689-85738-6
"In pondering Mary Mallon's response, I think that Mr. Soper's accusation in front of her employer must've given her a great surprise and embarrassment. But I don't think we were wrong. We simply asked her for a test of her fluids. I'm beginning to see that people in the sciences often have to think in a different realm, somewhere beyond human emotions. They must hold their feelings in a dark cave de...more
"In pondering Mary Mallon's response, I think that Mr. Soper's accusation in front of her employer must've given her a great surprise and embarrassment. But I don't think we were wrong. We simply asked her for a test of her fluids. I'm beginning to see that people in the sciences often have to think in a different realm, somewhere beyond human emotions. They must hold their feelings in a dark cave de...more
I really liked this much more than I initially thought I would. But, I wanted more. There needed to be more thrust to the story. While I felt Prudence's passion for wanting to go into science/medicine, I thought that too much other was brought into the story and not expressed as much as it could have or should have been.
When I got to page 50 or so, I was SO ANGRY right along with Pru about how women had no power and couldn't grow up and be what they wanted. I wanted way more of that. I wanted m...more
When I got to page 50 or so, I was SO ANGRY right along with Pru about how women had no power and couldn't grow up and be what they wanted. I wanted way more of that. I wanted m...more
I gave this title to a few Senior girls last spring. One loved it, the other was lukewarm. I thought it was terrific and it will definitely will appear on my Mock Newbery 2012 list.
The premise grows a teensy bit like a sapling in Brooklyn, with a first generation New Yorker in the early 20th century whose mother sacrifices so she can go to a girls school that promises better work (secretarial vs factory work) for its graduates.
Prudence Galewski's best friend has moved to a faraway farm & has...more
The premise grows a teensy bit like a sapling in Brooklyn, with a first generation New Yorker in the early 20th century whose mother sacrifices so she can go to a girls school that promises better work (secretarial vs factory work) for its graduates.
Prudence Galewski's best friend has moved to a faraway farm & has...more
It's 1906 and fifteen-year-old Prudence feels trapped by what little she learns at "Mrs. Browning's School for Girls." Her eager mind is thrilled when she gets a job taking notes for the department of Health. Her "chief," as she calls him, is trying to find out the source of a series of typhoid outbreaks. Prudence is part of the team that realizes that Irish immigrant and cook Mary Mallon, who is outwardly totally healthy, is a carrier of the typhoid fever and has been unknowingly infecting the...more
Prudence lives in a cramped New York City tenement with her mother. She attends Miss Browning’s School for Girls—and hates it. Instead of paying attention to lectures on how to properly
run a household, Prudence finds herself daydreaming about people and what makes them healthy or sick, especially since her brother died from injuries from a cart horse and her father is still missing in action from the Spanish-American War.
When she has the chance to work as a secretary for an engineer at the Depa...more
run a household, Prudence finds herself daydreaming about people and what makes them healthy or sick, especially since her brother died from injuries from a cart horse and her father is still missing in action from the Spanish-American War.
When she has the chance to work as a secretary for an engineer at the Depa...more
Told through a series of Journal/Diary pages, Julie Chibbaro's DEADLY is a coming of age story of Prudence Galewski, a second generation Jewish immigrant in 1905-06 New York. In the course of the book Prudence goes from being a finishing school student who dreams of something more for herself to being an important, albeit somewhat minor character in the pursuit of Mary Mallon, the Irish immigrant who was dubbed "Typhoid Mary" by the popular press of the day.
Stories told via journals, much like s...more
Stories told via journals, much like s...more
This was an interesting book that managed to get across a lot of scientific information without feeling as though that was what it was doing. It is presented in diary-entry format and has personal items and medical or historical items mixed together. It was not fast-paced or exciting, but it was a good solid read.
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A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get ou...more
Product Description
A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get ou...more
I read this book at the same time as Susan Vreeland's "Clara and Mr. Tiffany" which is an adult novel set in the same time period (early 1900s New York City). So I was fully imersed in the culture of the time as I was reading it. This novel is written in journal format from Prudence's point of view. She takes a job working as an assistant/secretary to a disease hunter at the Deptartment of Health and Sanitation. She's very excited to be doing something that she feels is of value and uses her bra...more
Deadly was a good follow up to The Power of One, my previous read. Where The Power of One was epic and took me a few weeks to read, Deadly's scope was confined to less than a year and I read it in less than a day. Yet Deadly was enjoyable, interesting and, perhaps, most valuable to me, a read that is challenging enough for my daughters with absolutely no objectionable content.
Deadly is written in diary format by sixteen year old Prudence Galewski. Prudence is a second generation Jewish American...more
Deadly is written in diary format by sixteen year old Prudence Galewski. Prudence is a second generation Jewish American...more
I picked this up off of our new books cart intrigued by the cover but without really knowing anything about it. After a bit of a slow start in the first couple of chapters, this became one of the most intriguing historical fiction books I've read in a long time! In 1906, Prudence is 16, attending a finishing school, but never quite feels like she fits in with the other girls her age. Ever since her brother died of an infection, she has been interested in germs and ridding the world of disease. W...more
deadly was almost a no-go for me, but it starts to get interesting after the first couple of chapters - it's when Prudence gets a job at the Department of Health and Sanitation that the story really picks up some steam. Before then, we had to endure the trials of finishing school where girls either learn to be housewives or governesses or some other seemingly unexciting things. Prudence never fits in that mold, and she has the luck of landing a secretary joy with the perks of also being assistan...more
Good YA selection. I thought it was a mystery when I chose it to read; but this is more historical fiction and dealing with how society dealt with medical issues, disease, and limited the choices of women.
Set in 1906 and told from the viewpoint of a 16 year old girl who becomes an assistant to Soper, the man who is tracking down a typhoid fever epidemic. It did not take me long to figure out it was a story dealing with the discovery of Typhoid Mary. Although more detail could have been added it...more
Set in 1906 and told from the viewpoint of a 16 year old girl who becomes an assistant to Soper, the man who is tracking down a typhoid fever epidemic. It did not take me long to figure out it was a story dealing with the discovery of Typhoid Mary. Although more detail could have been added it...more
Altogether this book is very good. It goes very in depth and makes you truly feel and see things as the character does. If you are into historical fiction/ mystery then you will probably enjoy this book also.
I liked the intricate plot and how everything fit together. I also liked how they showed her internal conflict as well as the external conflict. The internal conflict was written and described very well. The characters had many layers.
I did not like however the fact that the ending was very...more
Prudence takes chances and goes against the "socially accepted" roles of her time. When she tries to get a job...
"He cleared his throat and picked up my typing test. I racked my mind for a way to ask him about the job and what it might entail-I tried to call up words, by they seemed as ephmeral as clouds. 'So, I have all of your information, name, address and such,' he said. He stood, as if to end the meeting. And then it came to me. 'Sir, did the Department of Health and Sanitation begin after...more
"He cleared his throat and picked up my typing test. I racked my mind for a way to ask him about the job and what it might entail-I tried to call up words, by they seemed as ephmeral as clouds. 'So, I have all of your information, name, address and such,' he said. He stood, as if to end the meeting. And then it came to me. 'Sir, did the Department of Health and Sanitation begin after...more
Medical mysteries are intriguing, and this one, told through a series of letters and journal entries, has much to offer even though most of the mystery is solved during the first half of the book. Prudence Galewski, 16, leaves her vocational school in order to take a job working in the Department of Health and Sanitation on New York City. One of the first cases with which she is involved focuses on finding out the cause of an outbreak of typhus in the city. The author provides wonderful descript...more
It's 1906 and Prudence lives with her mother in a New York tenement. Her brother has died and her father joined up with Teddy Roosevelt to fight in Cuba with the Rough Riders. He hasn't been heard from in years. Prudence goes to a school where she is being taught to be a proper lady but also helps her mother who is a midwife. She gets a job working for the New York Department of Health and Sanitation with the epidemiologist who investigates the case of Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary. This book is a q...more
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Julie Chibbaro is the author of Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011), a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary. Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. Deadly was named Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association for 2012. The novel has received excellent reviews from su...more
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